Off Panel #98: Ego the Living Podcast with Jason Concepcion

By David Harper

May 8, 2017

On this week’s episode of Off Panel, The Ringer writer Jason Concepcion joins the show to talk Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and the 2017 slate of comic book movies. Concepcion talks Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (spoiler alert like crazy!) (00:51s), whether Guardians feels disconnected from the rest of the Marvel universe (4:55), the stingers (8:27), what worked in the movie (12:34), whether it had the best Stan Lee cameo (14:53), what didn’t work (16:37), then Guardians talk (and the spoilers) ends as we move onto the comic movie Mount Rushmore (22:10), hype levels for 2017’s remaining comic movies (25:30), the advent of rated R comic book movies (42:09), the state of the X-Men movies (47:00), Inhumans as a TV show (49:30), why comic adaptations work and video game adaptations don’t (53:45), before closing with five questions about Overwatch, the Knicks, Kojima, and more (59:00).